The Gothic courtyard
Carved galleries and outer stairs — the building as exhibit.
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The largest Gothic civic complex in Transylvania: Altemberger House, Sibiu's old town hall since 1549, is a cluster of houses and towers around a courtyard of carved galleries and outer stairs — the building itself the first exhibit, before what it holds. Inside is the history branch of the Brukenthal museum: tools and seals of the Saxon guilds, the silver and gold treasury of Sibiu's goldsmiths who were the region's most famous, the arms room, a medieval physician's laboratory, the courtroom with its instruments of torture — and the Roman and Dacian basement with the county's antiquities. The truest place to grasp how Saxon guilds governed an entire city for five centuries. It stands directly behind the cathedral, and its combined ticket with Brukenthal saves.
Carved galleries and outer stairs — the building as exhibit.
Sibiu silver and gold, Transylvania's most famous.
Strada Mitropoliei 2, Sibiu
Huet SquareA square in Sibiu's Upper Town surrounding the great Evangelical church, the old1 minute walk4.8
The Georg Daniel Teutsch MonumentA statue in Huet Square before the Evangelical Cathedral in Sibiu, to the bishop1 minute walk4.5
The Evangelical CathedralSibiu's tallest spire: the Gothic Lutheran cathedral (fourteenth century) lifts 1 minute walk4.8
Brukenthal National MuseumRomania's first museum and among Europe's oldest: Baron Samuel von Brukenthal, g1 minute walk4.5
The Bridge of LiesRomania's first cast-iron bridge and its most famous urban legend: built in 18592 minutes walk4.6Yes if local history appeals; Brukenthal for art, this for the city and its guilds — an hour each, two minutes' walk apart.